The Last Days Remnant

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   The Bible tells us that Yehovah will always have a small number of believers that will completely trust and obey Him.

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“Unless יְחוׇֹח of hosts had left to us a small remnant, we would

have become like Sedom (Sodom) , we would have been made

like Amorah (Gomorrah).”  Yeshayah (Isaiah) 1:9

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“So therefore also, at this present time a remnant according to

the choice of favour has come to be.”  Romiyim (Romans) 11:5

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 These are the True Followers of Messiah Yeshua! Sometimes they may be considered outcasts and misfits within Christianity! Those believers who do their absolute best to adhere to the Word of Elohim; and by doing so – go against the grain – of modern, ecumenical Christendom. Men and women who are truly Born Again! They are filled with and led by Ruach ha’Kodesh (Holy Spirit), and seek to follow Yeshua wholeheartedly; without the influence of man-made doctrines.

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“...the sheep hear his voice. And he calls his own sheep by

name and leads them out. And when he has brought out

his own sheep, he goes before them. And the sheep follow him, because they know his voice. And they shall by

no means follow a stranger, but shall flee from him,

because they do not know the voice of strangers. 

Yohanan (John) 10:3b-5 (emphasis mine)

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   They may have not been exposed to or taught the True Name of the Father or the Messiah; but have a sincere heart for Elohim. There is something deep within them...a questioning...an awareness about the error of man's religion! They KNOW that what they are being taught are the doctrines of men. They have the understanding that something just isn't right. They may not know the scriptures very well, or why they have the insight they have...They just do!

 

   Christianity tends to call the Heavenly Father, God, which is a title, NOT a name; and they call the Son Jesus. This is where I was for many decades, also calling Him Jesus; but I have come to understand a deeper Truth about the Father and Yeshua. I have always been one constantly swimming upstream, but never fully comprehending why. Ever since I made that fateful decision to turn my life over to my Savior, I have been seeking to know Yeshua, my Father, and the depths of His Word. Because of this endeavor, I have generally been unaccepted by churches and church leaders! As I got to know the Word of Elohim better, I would ask pointed questions; or confront accepted doctrines, rituals, and traditions of men. Especially, when they conflicted with the Bible.  

 

   After 40-plus years of following the Messiah, I have found a few others who have also been subjected to, and sometimes ridiculed, by church pastors and religious authorities. Enlightened leaders who can not understand why these remnant believers do not accept their ecumenical teachings without question. They discount, and/or reject the discernment of these Followers of Yeshua, as mere nonsensical notions! Or they might label it as a rebellion against God! Even though these remnant believers may be exposing the doctrines of man. If these rebels refuse to set aside their convictions and beliefs, they can be shunned, or expelled from the congregation. Fulfilling what Messiah Yeshua proclaimed! That there would only be a remnant of believers in the Last Days.

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“Enter in through the narrow gate! Because the gate is wide –

and the way is broad – that leads to destruction, and there

are many who enter in through it. Because the gate is narrow

and the way is hard pressed which leads to life, and there are

few who find it.” Mattithyahu (Matthew) 7:13-14

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   The path of ecumenism is that broad way! But notice that Yeshua said – few even find the narrow gate that leads to eternal life. Of the few that have discovered it, even less are upon that narrow way! 

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   How many have found that road that leads to eternal life, only to forsake it because they considered the path too difficult – or the price was too high – to continue to follow Messiah Yeshua? 

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“For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened,

and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become

partakers of the Set-apart Spirit, and have tasted the

good Word of Elohim and the powers of the age to come,

and fall away, to renew them again to repentance –

having [crucified] for themselves the Son of Elohim again,

and put Him to open shame.”  Ib’rim (Hebrews) 6:4-6

 

   Those who consider the price too high, often rationalize that because it is so difficult; this "can't be of God"! 

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“But when the Son of Adam comes, shall

He find belief on the earth?”  Luqas 18:8b

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   However, difficult times were promised by Yeshua!

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“...(But) when (not IF) pressure or persecution arises

because of the word, immediately he stumbles

(falls away).” Mattithyahu 13:21b 

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    Firm faith in Messiah Yeshua, and the indwelling Ruach ha'Kodesh, helps strengthen believers to hold on to scriptures such as the following!

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“No trial has overtaken you except such as is common to

man, and Elohim is trustworthy, who shall not allow you to be

tried beyond what you are able, but with the trial shall also

make the way of escape, enabling you to bear it.”

Qorintiyim Aleph (1 Corinthians) 10:13

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   This faithful band of Believers in Yeshua is not a denomination or religious sect. They are the called and chosen of Elohim, scattered throughout the world! They can be found mingled within denominations, or as small pockets of True Believers brought together by Ruach ha’Kodesh!

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“Another parable He put before them, saying, ‘The reign of

the heavens has become like a man who sowed good seed in

his field, but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed

darnel among the wheat and went away.’” 

Mattithyahu 13:24-25

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“And when the blade sprouted and bore fruit, then the darnel also appeared. And the servants of the master of

the house came and said to him, ‘Master, did you not

sow good seed in your field? From where then does

it have the darnel?’”  Mattithyahu 13:26-27 

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“And he said to them, ‘A man, an enemy did this.’ And

the servants said to him, ‘Do you wish then, that we go

and gather them up?’ But he said, ‘No, lest while you gather

up the darnel you also uproot the wheat with them. Let

both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest

I shall say to the reapers, “First gather the darnel and bind them

in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my granary.””  Mattithyahu 13:28-30

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   When Messiah Yeshua Appears (commonly called The Rapture), He will gather the wheat (the remnant, His Bride) and bring them to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.

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“Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him praise, for the

marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife prepared

herself. And to her it was given to be dressed in fine linen,

clean and bright, for the fine linen is the righteousnesses

of the set-apart ones. And he said to me, ‘ Write, Blessed

are those who have been called to the marriage supper of

the Lamb!’ And he said to me, ‘These are the true words

of Elohim.’”  Hazon (Revelation) 19:7-9

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The Signs of Noah and Lot

 

   Messiah Yeshua compared the Last Days to the times of two men of old. Noah, and Lot, the nephew of Abraham.

 

“For as they were in the days before the flood, eating

and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until

the day that Noah entered into the ark, and they did not

know until the flood came and took them all away, so also

shall the coming of the Son of Adam be.” 

Mattithyahu 24:38-39

 

   Noah endured years of tribulation (the testing of his faith), for the entire time he was building the ark. Elohim had told him it was going to rain for 40 days and 40 nights, and Noah believed Him. However, in the end, the total number of people saved on the ark was indeed a remnant; only 8 people in all! 

 

“...[the] patience of Elohim waited in the days of Noah,

while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is,

eight beings, were saved through water.” 

Kepha Aleph (1 Peter) 3:20b

 

   But after Noah and his family entered the ark, how many were saved as the wrath of Elohim was unleashed upon the world in the form of a flood? Zero! Not one person was left behind after this judgment began. 

 

   The experience of Lot was very similar!

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​“And likewise, as it came to be in the days of Lot: They

were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they

were selling, they were planting, they were building, but on

the day Lot went out of Sedom it rained fire and sulphur

from heaven and destroyed all. It shall be the same in the day

the Son of Adam is revealed.”  Luqas (Luke) 17:28-30

 

   Lot lived in one of the most godless places in the ancient world, known as Sedom (Sodom). This metropolis was comparable to New York City or San Francisco here in the United States. It was plagued by rampant homosexuality, and it is from the name of that city from which we get the word sodomy.[2]

 

​​   The Bible tells us that righteous Lot was vexed (suffered as a trial) by the wickedness of Sedom and Amorah (Gamorrah).

 

“And having reduced to ashes the cities of Sedom and Amorah condemned them to destruction – having made them an example

to those who afterward would live wickedly, and rescued

righteous Lot, who was oppressed with the indecent behaviour

of the lawless (for day after day that righteous man, dwelling

among them, tortured his righteous being by seeing and

hearing their lawless works).” Kepha Bet (2 Peter) 2:6-8

 

   When Yehovah told Abraham of His intention to destroy the cities of Sedom and Amorah, Abraham asked Him:

 

“...‘Would you also destroy the righteous with the wrong?’” 

Bereshith (Genesis) 18:23b

 

   Messengers (angels) were sent to Sedom to forcibly remove Lot and his family; before the wrath of Yehovah fell upon it.

 

“And the two messengers came to Sedom in the evening…

And when morning dawned, the messengers urged Lot to

hurry, saying, ‘Get up, take your wife and your two

daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the

punishment of the city.’ And while he loitered, the men

took hold of his hand, and his wife’s hand, and the hands

of his two daughters, יְחוׇֹח having compassion on him,

and they brought him out and set him outside the city." 

Bereshith 19:1a; 15-16

 

   Because of the judgment from Yehovah; Sedom, and Amorah were completely wiped off the face of the Earth. How many were saved in those cities after the wrath of Elohim fell? The same as in the days of Noah – absolutely none!

 

   Although Perry Stone, John Hagee, Hal Lindsey, Tim LaHaye, and their ilk have perpetuated the heresy that multitudes will be saved after the Rapture, and left behind to preach the Gospel – there is absolutely no scriptural basis for this belief!

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Persecution and Apostasy

 

   Persecution for righteousness sake is evidence that a person or fellowship is following Messiah Yeshua and the leadership of Ruach ha’Kodesh.

 

“If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me

before it hated you.”  Yohahan 15:18

 

“If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But

because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of

the world, for that reason the world hates you.” 

Yohanan 15:19

 

“Because to you it has been given as a favour, on behalf of

Messiah, not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer

for His sake.”  Pilipiyim (Philippians) 1:29

 

“Blessed are those persecuted for righteousness’

sake, because theirs is the reign of the heavens.” 

Mattithyahu 5:10

 

   In these Last Days, the anti-Messiah and the One World Church will indeed persecute the Last Days Remnant of True Believers.

 

“And it was given to him to fight with the set-apart ones

(the True Followers of the Messiah) and to overcome them.

And authority was given to him over every tribe and

tongue and nation.” Hazon 13:7

 

   According to the Word of Elohim, two things MUST occur before the Messiah appears in the clouds to gather His Bride.

 

“Let no one deceive you in any way, because the falling

away is to come first, and the man of lawlessness is

to be revealed, the son of destruction.” 

Tas'loniqim Bet (2 Thessalonians) 2:3 (emphasis mine) 

 

   Yeshua told His disciples that persecution would cause many of those who profess His Name to deny Him and betray True Believers.

 

“And then many shall stumble, and they shall deliver

up one another, and shall hate one another.” 

Mattithyahu 24:10

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   In the parable recorded in Mattithyahu (Matthew) chapter 13, Yeshua describes what happens to those seeds that fall on rocky ground.

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“And others fell on rocky places, where they did not have

much soil, and immediately they sprang up, because they

had no depth of soil. But when the sun was up they were

scorched, and because they had no root they withered.”  Mattithyahu 13:5-6

 

  Another cause of apostasy is heretical teachings and ecumenism. There is no Biblical root in a Follower of Messiah who has been fed a diet of error, lies, and religious harlotry.

 

“Yet he has no root in himself, but is short-lived, and when

(not IF) pressure or persecution arises because of the

word, immediately he stumbles (and falls away).” 

Mattithyahu 13:20-21 (emphasis mine)

 

  Although the false teachers of ecumenism have convinced a church gorged on promises of prosperity and escapism – that they will all be snatched away before the son of perdition comes to power – this is absolute heresy.

                     

The Sixth Seal, the Sign of the Son of Man

 

   As recorded in the Book of Mattithyahu, when the abomination that lays waste is set up; it begins what Yeshua called great distress, or tribulation. 

 

“‘So when you see the ‘abomination that lays waste,’ spoken

of by Dani’el the prophet, set up in the set-apart place – he

who reads, let him understand – then let those who are in

Yehudah flee to the mountains. Let him who is on the

house-top not come down to take whatever out of

his house.’”  Matithyahu 24:15-17

 

“And let him who is in the field not turn back to get his

garments. And woe to those who are pregnant and to

those who are nursing children in those days!” 

Mattithyahu 24:18-19 

 

“And pray that your flight does not take place in winter or

on the Sabbath. For then there shall be great distress

(tribulation), such as has not been since the beginning of .

the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be.” 

Mattithyahu 24:20-21

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   He then went on to say what would happen after that period of tribulation!

 

“And immediately after the stress of those days the sun shall

be darkened, and the moon shall not give its light, and the

stars shall fall from the heaven, and the powers of the

heavens shall be shaken.”  Mattithyahu 24:29 

 

   There are other references to this occurrence mentioned in the Word of Elohim.

 

“And I shall give signs in the heavens and upon the earth:

blood and fire and columns of smoke, the sun is turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the coming of

the great and awesome day of  יְחוׇֹח.”  Yo’el (Joel) 2:30-31

 

  These scriptures in Mattityahu and Yo’el refer to the same occurrence that happens when the Sixth Seal is opened in the Book of Hazon.

 

“And I looked when He opened the sixth seal and saw a

great earthquake came to be. And the sun became black

as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood. And the

stars of the heaven fell to the earth, as a fig tree drops its

unripe figs, being shaken by a strong wind. And heaven

departed like a scroll being rolled  up, and every mountain

and island was moved out of its place.”   Hazon 6:12-14

 

   It is when the Sixth Seal is broken open that the word wrath is mentioned for the very first time in the Book of Hazon!

 

“And the sovereigns of the earth, and the great ones, and the

rich ones, and the commanders, and the mighty, and every

slave and every free one, hid themselves in the caves and in

the rocks of the mountains.”  Hazon 6:15

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“And said to the mountains and rocks, ‘Fall on us and hide us

from the face of Him sitting on the throne and from the wrath

of the Lamb, because the great day of His wrath has come,

and who is able to stand?’” Hazon 6:16-17

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  There is a prophesy in the Book of Yeshayah (Isaiah) referencing that people will flee to the rocks to hide from the wrath of Yehovah.

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"And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the

caves of the earth, from [the wrath] of יְחוׇֹח and the splendour

of His excellency, when He arises to shake the earth mightily." Yeshayah 2:19​​​

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   It is after the beginning of Wrath of the Lamb; that the 144,000 are sealed.

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“And I saw another messenger coming up from the rising of

the sun, holding the seal of the living Elohim. And he cried

with a loud voice to the four messengers to whom it was

given to harm the earth and the sea saying ‘Do not harm

the earth, nor the sea, nor the trees until we have sealed

the servants of our Elohim upon their foreheads.’ And I

heard the number of those who were sealed, one hundred

and forty-four thousand, sealed out of all the tribes of

the children of Yisra’el.” Hazon 7:2-4

 

   There is no scriptural evidence of anyone being saved after the Sixth Seal is opened. The Word of Elohim refutes that notion, and records they repented not - a total of three times!

 

“And the rest of mankind, who were not killed by these

plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands…”  

Hazon 9:20a (emphasis mine)

 

“And they did not repent of their murders, nor of their

 drug sorceries, nor of their whoring, nor of their thefts.”  

Hazon 9:21 (emphasis mine)

 

“And men were burned with great heat, and they blasphemed

the Name of Elohim who possesses authority over these

plagues. And they did not repent, to give Him esteem.”

Hazon 16:9 (emphasis mine)

 

   Also consider that when Messiah Yeshua returns and does battle at Har Megiddo (Armageddon), the Word of Elohim states that He comes with all of His saints. 

 

“And you shall flee to the valley of My mountain - for the valley

of the mountains reaches to Atsal. And you shall flee as you

fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziyah sovereign

of Yehudah. And יְחוׇֹח my Elohim shall come – (and) all the

set-apart ones with You.”  Zekaryah (Zechariah)14:5

 

   How could the Messiah return with all the saints, if some are saved – which makes them saints – after the Rapture and they are still here on Earth?

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   Referring back to the winnowing instrument, (the basis for the term tribulation), the pressure of all that is happening at that time separates the true from the false; like wheat from the chaff. Messiah then reaps His chosen for Himself! He harvests His wheat from the Earth and throws the tares or grapes as they are called, into the winepress of the wrath of Elohim.

 

“Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of

harvest I shall say to the reapers, ‘First gather the darnel and

bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat

into my granary.’” Mattithyahu 13:30

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“And I looked and saw a white cloud, and sitting on the

cloud was One like the Son of Adam, having on His head a

golden crown, and in His hand a sharp sickle. And another messenger came out of the Dwelling Place, crying with a loud

voice to the One sitting on the cloud, ‘Send Your sickle and

reap, because the hour has come for You to reap, because

the harvest of the earth is ripe.’” Hazon 14:14-15

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“And the One sitting on the cloud thrust in His sickle on the

earth, and the earth was reaped. And another messenger

came out of the Dwelling Place which is in the heaven, and

he too held a sharp sickle. And another messenger came

out from the slaughter-place, having authority over the fire,

and he cried with a loud cry to him having the sharp sickle,

saying, ‘Send your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of

the vine of the earth, because her grapes are ripe.’”

Hazon 14: 16-18

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“And the messenger thrust his sickle into the earth and

gathered the vine of the earth, and threw it into the great

winepress of the wrath of Elohim. And the winepress was

trodden outside the city, and blood came out of the

winepress, up to the bridles of the horses, for about

one thousand six hundred stadia.” Hazon 14:19-20

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   The most dangerous part of this deadly teaching about a Pre-Tribulation Rapture is that it has convinced Believers that they will all be gone before the anti-Messiah comes to power. Saturated in the spirit of heresy; modern Christians fattened on the diet of a false gospel, are unprepared to: 

 

“Suffer hardship with us as a good soldier of יֵשׁוּצַ” 

Timotiyos Bet (2 Timothy) 2:3

 

   Because they have listened to the ecumenical shepherds, how many Followers of Messiah will have exercised their faith and allowed it to be tested? So that when the Mark of the Beast does come, (when no one will be able to buy or sell without that mark), will have the faith to trust Messiah Yeshua?

 

“And he causes all, both small and great, and rich and poor,

and free and slave, to be given a mark upon their right

hand or upon their foreheads.” Hazon 13:16 

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“And that no one should be able to buy or sell except he

that has the mark or the name of the beast, or the

number of his name.”  Hazon 13:17

 

   How many will be able to watch as their loved ones suffer for their faith, truly knowing and believing – because they have already been tried in the fire – that the Word of Elohim is sure!

 

“And my Elohim shall fill all your need according

to His riches in esteem by Messiah יֵשׁוּצַ.”

Pilipiyim (Philippians) 4:19

 

   Or will have the faith to make the same proclamation as the three Hebrews who voiced their absolute trust in Yehovah; to King Nebbachanezzer! 

 

“Shadrak, Meyshak, and Abed-Nego answered and said

to the sovereign, ‘O Nebukadnetstsar, we have no need

to answer you in this matter. For if so, our [Elohim]

whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning

furnace of fire and from your hand, O sovereign – He does

deliver!’ But if not, let it be known to you, O sovereign, that

we do not serve your elahin (gods), nor do we do obeisance

to the gold image which you have setup.” Dani’el 3:16-18

 

   Notice that they were saved amid the fire (tribulation) NOT before!

 

“And these three men, Shadrak, Meyshak, and Abed-Nego,

fell down bound into the midst of the burning furnace of fire.

Then Sovereign Nebukadnetstsar was amazed, and stood

up in haste and spoke and said to his counsellors, ‘Did we

not throw three men bound into the midst of the fire?’

They answered and said to the sovereign,

‘Certainly, O sovereign.’” Dani'el 3:23-24

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“He answered and said, ‘Look! I see four men loose,

walking in the midst of the fire. And they are not hurt, and

the form of the fourth is like the Son of Elahin (Elohim).’

Then Nebukadnetstsar went near the mouth of the burning

furnace of fire. He spoke and said, ‘Shadrak, Meyshak,

and Abed-Nego, servants of the Most High Elah, come out,

and come here.’ Then Shadrak, Meyshak, and Abed-Nego came

from the midst of the fire. And the viceroys, the nobles, and the governors, and the sovereign’s counsellors gathered together, seeing these men on whose bodies the fire had no power, and

the hair of their head was not singed nor were their garments changed, nor did the smell of fire come on them.”

Dani’el 3:25-27

 

   According to the Word of Elohim, anyone who takes the Mark of the Beast, even though they may be a professing Christian, will lose their place in the Kingdom, and be cast into the Lake of Fire.

 

“And a third messenger followed them, saying with a loud

voice, ‘If anyone worships the beast and his image, and

receives his mark upon his forehead or upon his hand, he

also shall drink of the wine of the wrath of Elohim, which is

poured out undiluted into the cup of His wrath. And he shall

be tortured with fire and sulphur before the set-apart

messengers and before the Lamb. And the smoke of their

torture goes up forever and ever. And they have no rest day

or night, those worshipping the beast and his image, also

if anyone receives the mark of his name.’”

Hazon 14:9-11

 

   The True Followers of Messiah Yeshua will be subjected to the anti-Messiah for 42 months, or approximately three and a half years!

 

“And he was given a mouth speaking great matters and

blasphemies, and he was given authority to do

so forty-two months.” Hazon 13:5

 

“And the ten horns are ten sovereigns from this reign. They

shall rise, and another shall rise after them, and it is different

from the first ones, and it humbles three sovereigns.”

Dani’el 7:24 

 

“And it speaks words against the Most High, and it wears out

the set-apart ones (the saints) of the Most High…and they are

given into its hand for a time and times and half a time

(approximately 3 ½  years).” Dani’el 7:25a,c​​​​​